Faculty of Medicine MU Contributes to Successful Launch of Brno Health Festival
The Faculty of Medicine of Masaryk University took part in the opening event of the Brno Health Festival...
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MUNI RUN: Kotyza retains his title, Štoudková once again the fastest woman
On Tuesday afternoon, the university campus in Bohunice came alive for the third time with the MUNI RUN race. This year, it also featured relay races.
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Leading killer of women is not breast cancer but heart disease
Fulbright Scholar Marci Lobel is teaching at Masaryk University about what we don’t know about women‘s health and examines the effects of stress on pregnancy.
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Six months in South Korea: student diary
Renata Sasková studies Media Studies and Journalism at the Faculty of Social Studies at Masaryk University. She is currently spending her sixth semester on an exchange stay in the South Korean city of Ulsan. In her travel diary, she offers an authentic account of everything happening around her.
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MUNI DAY will once again bring university together
The largest university-wide sporting and social gathering for students and staff at Masaryk University – MUNI DAY – is approaching. Now in its fourth year, the event will take place on Wednesday 13 May at the Bohunice campus.
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CREATIC opens facilities for the development and production of modern therapies
The CREATIC Centre of Excellence at Masaryk University’s Faculty of Medicine has opened new facilities in one of the buildings at the Bohunice University Campus, offering hope to patients with rare and serious diseases.
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Masaryk University to build new halls of residence soon
Today, representatives of Masaryk University and the City of Brno signed a land swap agreement. The university will acquire a parcel in Brno–Bohunice, expanding its existing campus area. The site is designated for new halls of residence and affordable community housing with a capacity of up to 1,500 beds.
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When hundreds of hours over textbooks turn into gold on the dance floor
Radek Doležal studies medicine and Nicole Folcová studies dentistry, both at the Faculty of Medicine. Together, they have shown that even the notoriously demanding medical studies can go hand in hand with elite sport. At the end of last year, they won the title of Czech academic champions in dancesport, or competitive dancing.
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Jakub Tolar and Frank Mittelbach take academic oath at ceremonial event
Masaryk University has awarded honorary doctorates to two distinguished figures whose work has significantly shaped the fields of medical science and informatics – paediatric haematologist specialising in cell and gene therapy Jakub Tolar, and document engineering and automation expert Frank Mittelbach.
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Masaryk University statement on the draft law on registration of entities with foreign ties
Proposed law on foreign ties threatens international cooperation.
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Don’t Panic app now helps users in 18 languages
Last year, Veronika Kamenská became a laureate of the Jan Opletal Award in the Personality under 30 category. A doctoral student at the Faculty of Medicine and a technician of interactive teaching at the Simulation Centre, she started the Nepanikař – or Don’t Panic – mobile app several years ago. Today, it helps hundreds of thousands of people dealing with anxiety, depression or suicidal thoughts.
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Seventeen PhD students from MU receive Brno Ph.D. Talent award
A total of 17 doctoral students from Masaryk University have received the Brno Ph.D. Talent award. This year, 151 PhD candidates from Brno universities applied for the scholarship – the highest number in the competition’s sixteen-year history.
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I believe my role in life is to spread my father´s story
He travels around the world giving lectures, is inspired by meetings with interesting people, and in his free moments relaxes best while riding a motorcycle. However, Nicholas Winton Jr. primarily tries to motivate the next generations to be courageous by reminding them of his father’s story. “We are all Wintons—each and every one of us. All it takes is to believe in yourself and start doing what you think is right,” he says.
